[solved] PAR and Mojolicious

basiliscos has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello dear monks!

Is it possible to bundle the Mojolicious web-application as single binary executable? I need that for the following purposes:

Easily deliver the ready product to customers, e.g. updates. They'll need just replace the binary file. No headaches with dependencies etc.
As there is come licence checking/validation code, it would be harder to hack/modify it, comparing to regular "vulnerable" for modifications .pm files. I plan even embed the licence information into it.

For that purposes, I have tried App::Staticperl from famous Mark Lehmann, but I have met the following problem:

staticperl mkapp app --boot path/to/my/launcher -M strict.pm -M warnin
+gs.pm -MFindBin -M Mojo::Server::Hypnotoad
ERROR: Can't open file "/loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/entities.txt": No such f
+ile or directory at /loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/Loader.pm line 7.
Compilation failed in require at /loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/Loader.pm line 
+7, <$R_TRACER> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/Loader.pm l
+ine 7, <$R_TRACER> line 4.
Compilation failed in require at /loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/Server.pm line 
+5, <$R_TRACER> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/Server.pm l
+ine 5, <$R_TRACER> line 4.
Compilation failed in require at /loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/Base.pm line 30
+, <$R_TRACER> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/Server/Daem
+on.pm line 2, <$R_TRACER> line 4.
Compilation failed in require at /loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/Base.pm line 30
+, <$R_TRACER> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/Server/Pref
+ork.pm line 2, <$R_TRACER> line 4.
Compilation failed in require at /loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/Server/Hypnotoa
+d.pm line 9, <$R_TRACER> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /loader/0xc800d0/Mojo/Server/Hypn
+otoad.pm line 9, <$R_TRACER> line 4.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 1, <$R_TRACER> line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 4) line 1, <$R_TRACER> line
+ 4.
 (while loading 'Mojo::Server::Hypnotoad')
processing bundle files (try more -v power if you get bored waiting he
+re)...
generating bundle.h... 
generating bundle.c... 440353 octets (356853 data octets).

...

build app...
[download]

Now I'm not even sure, that this is possible. Does anybody have success in similar task? Is there alternative solution for the 2nd goal?

The similar question: I also need to build portable (i.e. which could be just launched from flash-drive without any installation) win32 application with OpenGL support (i.e. something like game). How to do that? Any successful receipts?

Thanks!

Comment on [solved] PAR and Mojolicious Download Code

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Re: staticperl ( and Mojolicious ) by wjw (Priest) on May 12, 2014 at 19:37 UTC
Not sure if this is what you are after or not, but PAR::Packer seems like it might be worth looking at. ...Hope there is something there for you... ...the majority is always wrong, and always the last to know about it... Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results... wjw	[reply]
Re^2: staticperl ( and Mojolicious ) by basiliscos (Pilgrim) on May 13, 2014 at 13:36 UTC
Thank you, for hinting on PAR::Packer . Here is my receipt, how to make Mojolicious::Lite working under PAR::packer. I have taken some ideas from here You should have the code like the following at the beginning of myapp.pl, before "use Mojolicious::Lite" : `BEGIN { if(exists $ENV{PAR_TEMP}) { my $dir = $ENV{PAR_TEMP}; chdir $dir; my @substitutions = qw/Mojo Mojolicious/; for(@substitutions){ next if -l; symlink "inc/$_", $_ or die "Can't symlink $_ at $dir: $!"; } print "I'm at at $dir\n"; } }` [download] NB for Win32 : the directories should be copied instead of just symlink'ed. Locate the Mojo/entities.txt and Mojolicious/Commands.pm from Mojolicious distribution: `$ locate entities.txt /home/dmol/development/perl/dev-env.new/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib +/site_perl/5.16.3/Mojo/entities.txt $ locate Commands.pm /home/dmol/development/perl/dev-env.new/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3/lib +/site_perl/5.16.3/Mojolicious/Commands.pm` [download] (As alternative, you could just point to them somewhere, where Mojolicious disrtibution has being manually unpacked). Create standalone application via the following command line: `pp -x -a "/home/dmol/development/perl/dev-env.new/perlbrew/perls/perl- +5.16.3/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/Mojo/entities.txt;Mojo/entities.txt" \ -a "/home/dmol/development/perl/dev-env.new/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.16.3 +/lib/site_perl/5.16.3/Mojolicious/Commands.pm;Mojolicious/Commands.pm +" \ ./myapp.pl` [download] I haven't tried the application with external public and templates dirs, but probably, you should include them into archive (see pp's help), and may be do the same tricks as in p.1 I hope it would be useful for somebody!	[reply] [d/l] [select]